COTS Control Centre: Android App Code for Marine Pest Decision Support

CSIRO developed the COTS Control Centre Decision Support Tool as part of the National Environmental Science Program. The dataset contains the application code for a system deployed on 32 Samsung tablets to aid Crown-of-thorns starfish management on the Great Barrier Reef. It implements principles from a 2020 ecological strategy report.

Use Cases

• Studying the implementation of ecological decision models in mobile applications based on the described operational strategy.
• Analyzing software architecture for field data collection and sync systems based on the described Android Nearby Communications protocol.
• Reviewing source code for kiosk-mode applications designed for ruggedized hardware in marine environments.

Strengths

• Code is part of a documented hardware and software system comprising 32 Samsung Galaxy Tab Active2 tablets.
• Development is linked to a specific research program (NESP COTS IPM) and a 2020/2021 technical report.

Limitations

• The dataset contains application code (PNG, HTML, PDF files), not a typical data corpus; row count and data structure are unknown.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the source code after download.
• Freshness should be verified; last updated metadata shows a future date (2026-07-10).

Provenance

Source

CSIRO as part of the NESP COTS IPM Research Program, for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

Collection Method

Software development for a decision support system; code likely generated during application creation.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 13:51:00.524090

Geography

Great Barrier Reef, Australia